Sermon, Preached at Cambridge, the Lord`s Day After the Interment of His Excellency Increase Sumner, Esquire: Governor of the Commonwealth of ... Died June 7, 1799, Ætat; 53 (Classic Reprint) - Paperback

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To promote these important ends, I will endeavour to shew, That a great breach is made on a community, by the death of good rulers: and, How such a breach may be healed.

I. How great a breach is made on a community, by the death of good rulers, will appear, if we consider in what respects such rulers are a blessing to mankind. - Their counsels, their example, and their authority, render them a public blessing.

Good rulers are rendered a blessing to a community by their counsels. Wisdom, to discern the true interests of a State, is essential to the character of a good ruler. So important did this qualification appear in the view of Solomon, that, when permitted to ask what favour he pleased of God, he folicited this, in preference to every other: And now, 0 Lord my God, thou hast mad? thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out, or come in. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Give, therefore, thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? With wisdom like this, rulers can guide the affairs of a State with discretion. They perceive what is conducive to the public safety and interest, and what, to the public danger and detriment. They are men of understanding in the times.

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